A Complete Review of Mesa 3 Rugged Tablet

[Jon Snow]

Mesa 3 is a tablet PC which has a durable design and an impressive battery life, but it does lack high-end performance and can only do some basic office and information collection tasks. Also, it is more expensive for the specifications it provides. Although the specifications are impressive as it offers a super-tough design, plenty of customizations, hot-swap batteries and more. It, however, has some drawbacks too like the display size, low megapixel cameras, and it is quite expensive too.

Mesa 3 is an ultra-rugged tablet that can easily handle a long working day, no matter what the climatic conditions are. The all-new Mesa 3 offers either Windows or Android OS, and it is ideal for data collection along with a vast range of accessories.

Mesa 3: Specifications

Mesa 3 has an Intel Mobile Pentium N4020 1.1GHz CPU. It has a processing speed of 2.5 GHz and that too only on a single core. Mesa 3 uses an Apollo Lake chipset and has Intel HD Graphics 505. It boasts 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM and has a 125 GB of DA4128 SanDisk storage.

Mesa 3 has one 1st generation 3.1 USB port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, an optional RS-232 9-Pin D-Sub connector which has either 5V DC or 12V DC power output. It also has a USB 2.0, an HDMI and an ethernet cable. Mesa 3 has overall screen dimensions of 137 x 215 x 35 mm, and it comes with a 2-year warranty.

Mesa 3: Connectivity

Mesa 3 has a Bluetooth v5.0 + EDR connectivity. Along with that, it has a Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, a 2×2 MIMO of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It also has a 4G LTE connectivity with multiple carrier capability. You also get a MicroSD card slot and a tray for a Nano-SIM having an LTE connectivity and a removable 43.2 Whr battery with an optional 21.6 Whr battery.

Mesa 3: Design

Mesa 3 has very thick, yet curved sides that make it comfortable on holding. You will also see robust connection points at every corner of the tablet.

It weighs a bit heavy according to its 7-inch size. It has an inbuilt stylus and a seven-button function strip on the vertical edge on the right-hand where you will find a cursor cluster, a power button, a Windows key, return key and P1, P2 and P3 programmable functions. A High Ion-Exchange (HIE) cover glass protects its screen. Mesa 3 has undergone various tests regarding the temperature, pressure, rain, humidity, immersion, vibration and shocks, sand and dust, and it passed through all. This is the reason it is considered as probably the most robust Windows tablet.

Final Verdict

You can see from the specifications as mentioned above that the development of Mesa 3 was focused on battery life compromising a bit with the performance. However, there are some sectors in the industry where the hardware and performance are of lesser importance compared to the battery life. So that has been mainly kept in mind while developing Mesa 3. Even though it can run the windows apps, still you should not expect it to work very responsively like the iPad for processing the captured data. Rest, in an overall view, Mesa 3 has an impressive finishing, and its design construction is remarkable.

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